Marriage Counselling
Marriage Counselling in Christchurch
Often, couples who come to me feel lost and unable to move forward in their marriages. You and your partner may be experiencing feelings of disconnection, either emotionally or in relation to intimacy.
At Winchester Counselling, I offer marriage counselling in Christchurch, along with online counselling sessions. Read on to find out more about marriage counselling and its benefits.
Overcome Negative Cycles
The first intervention involves working to eliminate negative cycles in your marriage. Marriage partners who overcome their strict negative cycle and strained intimate relationships will experience greater desire and arousal. This will go a long way in improving the emotional connection between partners in a marriage.
Being attended to and responding to changing arousal states provides a deep experience of intimacy and fulfilment. During marriage counselling, I can help you and your partner break negative cycles and form new habits to improve your emotional and physical connection.
Emotional Connection
Marriage partners have routine ways of engaging emotionally and over time patterns form on how physical needs are expressed. A sense of safety and security in marriage encourages intimate interactions that are reciprocal and responsive.
In your marriage, your physical relationship may be a cause of grief and self-doubt. Disparities in orgasm ability, desire, and stimulation patterns will negatively affect marriages that are insecurely attached. This can lead to arguments, distress, and separation. Partners can become fixated on performance and worried about sexual and intimate interactions.
Physical and sexual intimacy satisfaction in marriage is directly associated with the level of marriage security. Marriage counselling can help you and your partner deal with emotional and connection issues to resolve intimate problems and improve your relationship.
Spirituality & Religion
Where Spirituality is part of a marriage relationship it is important to explore common ground. Compassion, commitment, and contemplation all play important roles in religious practices.
My approach at Winchester Counselling is to understand and appreciate how spirituality and religion are expressed in marriage. My collaborative and compassionate perspective on marriage therapy allows each partner's beliefs to be honoured and applied.
If this is your goal in marriage counselling, I will work with you and your partner to explore and understand each other’s beliefs.
Culturally Diverse
I welcome marriages that are culturally diverse. Working with diverse cultures from an attachment base is supported by research validated across cultures. Even though attachment actions vary across cultures, attachment needs are universal.
My approach to marriage counselling includes identifying the meanings and functions of emotional expression and bonding actions, considering the meaning of emotion in a social context, and using images and metaphors that couples identify with.
Are you ready to improve your marriage?
I’m a qualified counsellor who is committed to helping you improve your relationship with your partner. Learn more about my qualifications and experience.
Get in touch with Winchester Counselling for marriage counselling in Christchurch, or online counselling sessions.